The document provides a comprehensive list of information sources available for research, including journal databases, statistical databases, and archives. It highlights various platforms for accessing academic content, theses, and government data, as well as tools for reference management and plagiarism prevention. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of systematic literature gathering and organization for effective research.

1. INFORMATION SOURCES
FOR RESEARCH
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2. INFORMATION SOURCES
Journal Databases
Books
Statistical Databases
Theses and Dissertations
CoursewareCourseware
Archives
Information Portals

3. Journals
 Cambridge Journals https://www.cambridge.org/
 Emerald Insight https://www.emerald.com
 Oxford Journals https://academic.oup.com
 PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
 Sage https://journals.sagepub.com/
 Science Direct https://www.sciencedirect.com/ Science Direct https://www.sciencedirect.com/
 Springer Link https://link.springer.com/
 Wiley Online https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
 Wolters Kluwer – Medknow https://www.medknow.com
 Library
 iNFONET
 ONLiNE

4. EconLit
https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/
As the most reliable full-text source for economic research, this
database contains all of the indexing available in EconLit in addition to
full text of about 600 journals including the American Economic
Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review,
Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives).
This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in
economics & finance and volume and issue browsing is available for all
full-text journals.

5. JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals from many disciplines.
At present hosts full text contents of around 2600 journals with
applicable embargo.

6. Project MUSE
Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration between
• http://muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration between
the John Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower
Library
Today it is a leading provider of digital humanities and social
science content for the scholarly community.
Provides access to 116 journals.

7. Directory of Open
Access Journals
(DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that
indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed
journals.
Provides more than 14764 journals in all subjects.
Free to access and download

8. PLOS
https://www.plos.org/publications
PLOS is a non-profit publisher.
Top quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Free to access and download.

9. Directory of Open Access
Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access
https://www.doabooks.org
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access
books.
29138 Academic peer-reviewed books and book chapters from 386
publishers.
Free to access and download.

10. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose among free
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose among free
epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You
will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which
copyright has expired.
Free to access and download.

11. Rare Book Room
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http://www.rarebookroom.org/
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12. Book Goodies
.
http://www.bookgoodies.com
.

13. Library of Economics and Liberty
.
https://www.econlib.org/
.

14. LOADB
.
http://www.loadb.org
.

15. Census of India
The Indian Census is the most credible source of information on
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
The Indian Census is the most credible source of information on
Demography (Population characteristics), Economic Activity, Literacy and
Education, Housing & Household Amenities, Urbanisation, Fertility and
Mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Language, Religion,
Migration, Disability and many other socio-cultural and demographic data
since 1872.
Free access for 2001 and 2011

16. ProwessIQ
Is a comprehensive database on more than 41000 Indian companies.
http://prowessiq.cmie.com
Is a comprehensive database on more than 41000 Indian companies.
ProwessIQ, or Prowess for Interactive Querying, is a powerful internet-based
application for querying CMIE's database on performances of listed and
unlisted companies. It is simple and easy to use.

17. EPW RF India Time Series
http://www.epwrfits.in/index.aspx
In ITS, datasets have been structured under various modules. Such as
Financial Markets, State Domestic Product and Banking Statistics and so
on.
This initiative has the broad objective of aiding and promoting research
on Indian economy and financial markets and targeted to benefit
particularly students, research scholars and the academic community both
in India and abroad.

18. IMF eLibrary
http://www.elibrary.imf.org/
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and
research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers
and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and
perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid,
technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice,
poverty reduction, and so much more.

19. UN Comtrade
http://comtrade.un.org/db/
UN Comtrade provides access to global trade data.
There is a download limit of 50000 per data query for free access.
For larger queries paid subscription is required.
Access through U/n and P/w

20. Economic Review,
Kerala
The Economic Review includes, as it does every year, the most recent data
http://spb.kerala.gov.in
The Economic Review includes, as it does every year, the most recent data
on Kerala Government policies , Plan priorities, and on-going programmes
of Government departments. It provides a snapshot of economy’s
performance over the Five-Year Plan period. The Review is in two volumes.
Volume I covers the policies, programmes and achievements of Government
departments over the preceding year and Volume II provides the
corresponding datasets.

21. Economic Survey, India
A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of
India, Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy
http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp
India, Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy
over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performance on major
development programmes, and highlights the policy initiatives of the
government and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium term.
This document is presented to both houses of Parliament during the Budget
Session.
With detailed statistical data covering all aspects of the economy—macro as
well as sectoral—the report provides an overview on Indian Economy

22. ICSSR Data Service
The ICSSR Data Service includes social science and statistical datasets of
http:/www.icssrdataservice.in/
The ICSSR Data Service includes social science and statistical datasets of
various national-level surveys on debt & investment, domestic tourism,
enterprise survey, employment and unemployment, housing condition,
household consumer expenditure, health care, etc.
ICSSR Data Service aims to facilitate data sharing, preservation,
accessibility and reuse of social science research data collected from entire
social science community in India & abroad. As of now, the repository hosts
131 Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), and National Sample Survey (NSS)
datasets.

23. MOSPI
http://mospi.nic.in
MOSPI provides access to a large number of data and reports including
National Sample Survey report, National Accounts Statistics, and several
other statistical publications.
All the reports and publications are in portable data format

24. Open Govt. Data
Platform, India
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for
supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is
https://data.gov.in
supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is
intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their
organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and
applications collected by them for public use.

25. RBI Database on Indian
Economy
Through this website (DBIE), data are mainly presented through time-
http://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.r
bi?site=home
Through this website (DBIE), data are mainly presented through time-
series formatted reports. These reports have been organized under sectors
and sub-sectors according to their periodicities. Reports can be saved as
excel sheets for further analysis.

26. World Bank Open Data
http://data.worldbank.org
The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with
access to a wide range of data brought under 20 broad topics. This includes
almost all aspects of socio-economic development.

27. Global Open Data on
Agriculture & Nutrition
https://www.godan.info/
GODAN is an initiative that seeks to "support global efforts to
make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available,
accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide.

28. EBSCO Open
Dissertations
https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/
This ETD database is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs . It accepts e-
theses from participating institutions.
Free Access – Most items are downloadable

29. EThOS
http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
Electronic Thesis Online Service
This is a single point access to all theses produced by UK Higher Education
provided by The British Library. It harvests e-theses from the institutional
repositories and digitizes paper theses from participating institutions.
Login required
Restricted Access – Some items are downloadable

30. NDLTD
http://search.ndltd.org/
.

31. Open Access
Thesis and
Dissertations
http://www.oatd.org/
Open Access Thesis and Dissertations is a free repository of graduate
theses, and dissertations published worldwide.
OATD currently indexes 4,711,930 theses and dissertations.

32. Shodhganga – A reservoir of Indian
theses
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
TheShodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research
students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire
scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to
capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the
researchers.
Presently hosts around 245494 theses from different universities in India

33. Academic Earth
https://academicearth.org/
.

34. edX
EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from
the world’s best universities, colleges and organizations.
https://www.edx.org
the world’s best universities, colleges and organizations.
Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and many
other universities. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created
by founding partners Harvard and MIT.
Currently lot of courses are offered by various
institutions in different subjects.

35. MIT Open Courses
http://ocw.mit.edu
Open courseware of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In each
course syllabus, readings, assignments, and study materials are available
for download.
All courses are free to access and learn.

36. Swayam
http://swayam.gov.in
The objective of Swayam is to take the best teaching learning resources to
all, including the most disadvantaged. Offers courses from 9th std to PG.
All courses are free to access and learn.

37. Swayam Prabha
http://swayamprabha.gov.in
.

38. Vidya Mitra
http://content.inflibnet.ac.in/
.

39. arXiv
http://arxiv.org
arXiv is a repository of electronic preprints approved for publication after
moderation, that consists of scientific papers in the fields of economics,
physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics,
engineering, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online.
16 lakhs+ articles are currently available for download.

40. eGyanKosh
http://egyankosh.ac.in
d.

41. Eric
http://eric.ed.gov
d.

42. Krishi Kosh
https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in
.

43. Eldis
https://www.eldis.org/
A gateway to global development information on international development
issues. Provides free and easy access to materials on developing countries
...
articles are currently available for download.

44. National Digital
Library of India
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
The National Digital Library of India (NDL India) is a pilot project of MHRD
to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a
single-window search facility.
Currently 38,833,618 items hosted in NDL India
NDL Mobile App for Android and iOS is available.

45. ROAR
Registry of Open Access Repositories
http://roar.eprints.org
This is a general list of open access archives.
The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of
open access by providing timely information about the
growth and status of repositories throughout the world

46. New Economic Papers
http://nep.repec.org/
NEP is an announcement service which filters information on new
additions to RePEc into edited reports.
Scholars can register using their e-mail address and subscribe to the
weekly email alert service of various NEP subject categories (97 subjects).

47. SSRN
www.ssrn.com
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid
worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a
number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

48. Reference Management Tools
Mendeley https://www.mendeley.com/
Zotero https://www.zotero.org/
BibMe https://www.bibme.org/BibMe https://www.bibme.org/
Citefast https://www.citefast.com/
Cite this for Me https://www.citethisforme.com/
Easybib https://www.easybib.com/

49. Preventing Plagiarism
Copyleaks https://copyleaks.com/
Dupli Checker https://www.duplichecker.com/
Paper Rater https://www.paperrater.com/plagiarism_checker
Plagiarism Checker https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker
Prepost SEO https://www.prepostseo.com/plagiarism-checker
Search Engine Reports https://www.prepostseo.com/plagiarism-checker

50. Managing Literature
Systematic gathering of sources:
 Using proper tools to gather literature – Google Scholar,
Journal Databases, Bibliographies …
 Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes,
comments, and making it error free
 Organizing by topic, subject, research area… Organizing by topic, subject, research area…
 Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval
 Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.
While writing:
 Insert the citation and bibliography in the desired
citation style

51. Thank you!